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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh, I didn’t know they were fixed. I knew E:D took a more realistic approach and that every game makes compromises with rendering and instancing, but I never thought to question orbits. Cool, thank you for the info.

  I might be the only confused person in the thread, but I found this thread that explained more of what I wanted to know

  Steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/4751948774782720853

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For ~150 other countries, yes, carriers charge per SMS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, thank you. Do the planets follow orbits at all? Did they just disregard the sun? Does not compute

  E:D lets you refuel by scooping the corona, so visiting stars seems critical in exploration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone explain the sun thing? I read the article, all it says “yes you can visit, but it will be a perilous journey”. What was the previous limitation? What is expected now?

  I’m used to Elite: Dangerous. Ed ships have three travel modes: standard sublight (~1,000km/h), supercruise (0-2000c) between system bodies, and hyperspace jumps (wormhole from anywhere to the orbit of the main star of a system). So, in ED, you can supercruise up to any star, though it gets hot and it has an exclusion zone that drops you to sublight in the edge of its atmosphere. You can’t sublight further as the zone stops you. For reference of distance, it feels like you’re able to fly under the solar prominence loops, though they fade by time you reach the graphics sprite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we at a point in human history where we can get robotic limbs and other things to better our day to day lives? Like a robotic arm where I can pick up 100lbs with one arm and so forth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A huge part of lifting things as a normal human is finger strength. 100lbs is fairly casual to support with your body if you bypass the need for fingers and don’t have to maneuver it. I have these furniture lifting straps that go over the base of your forearm (near elbow), go under the furniture like a wardrobe, then up to another person’s forearms. The was at which your forearms can lift feels like magic once you take the pain out of your fingers. I’ve used these with several people and all give the same response. I highly recommend getting them.

  So while I’m not saying an arm could lift a car, many objects in our lives are movable because, at the upper limit, they’re kind of movable by humans already. I know you picked that weight at random, but the need for more of a brace than just the arm is more for the device’s own support rather than a limit of an average human body. And of course the size and shape of the object matters a lot too. But if it’s something where the weight can be supported well by your legs and core in some configuration, that’s not a lot of weight. Something like a pair of arms for equal support and a brace that extends to the waist would be manageable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do analog triggers matter all that much? (In general and aside from racing games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long time since I played PS2, but the analog triggers and bumpers and X/O/Tri/Sq got a fair amount of function. Ace Combat is of course a racing/flying category, but a non-racing function was Square pressure zoomed out the map variable. The other 3 shape buttons didn’t utilize pressure sensitivity, but the triggers and bumpers variable controlled throttle/brake and yaw.

  I vaguely remember an FPS game where aiming down sights with binoculars equipped offered variable zoom.

  But realistically, there’s a ton of uses for variable buttons, but devs have to employ them. I’d bet the utilization of the 6 extra PS buttons is nonexistent for any cross-platform games, especially PvP games. If you stick to PS-only titles, you’d probably find more examples. Unfortunately, I stopped at PS2, and nearly everything in my collection was racing. I can’t remember the details, but something about the Xbox one controller was lacking when I played the Spyro trilogy re-release/re-port.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to agree with the idea that legalizing it would attract epxloitive and abusive managers, increasing harm to (primarily) women. Now I don’t. Why? Because the “morally acceptable” workforce is already subject to predatory and abusive managers. Meanwhile, we already have labor slaves, immigrants separated from their passports, smugglers routinely demanding additional pay. You know what the “morally-acceptable” victims can do? Report themselves to authorities and get legal action and protection. You know what people knowingly engaging in illegal activities can’t do? Go to the authorities.

  Make it legal. Make it visible. Make it taxable and licensable, if so needed. Keeping it in the dark means the workers will heavily skew towards desparation, knowing they’re risking legal consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing devil’s rusted avocado, if I know anything about mature content submissions, they’ll latch onto any whitelisted combo as soon as it’s discovered and dilute the actual desired content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexagonal slotted misalignment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ahem actually, SL8 is aligned to faces. SL10 is aligned to both vertices and edges. The vertex is the pinpoint of a corner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people wear underwear under the padded bike shorts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick question, does your bike seat have the padded part or is it just the tube?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True torture⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Orating tongue-twisters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put data centers in space?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Into another environment, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put data centers in space?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Overheating is a massive issue outside the atmosphere. There’s no passive airflow to transfer heat through convection and there’s no air at all to utilize conduction. The only method left is radiation - the mechanism that let’s you feel the heat of a fire from the side. That’s the slowest option of them all.

  Space is not cold in any sense of thermal management because space is essentially empty. Representations of people/fluids freezing when evacuated into space isn’t a good representation of actual thermal management. While there is some freezing effect, it’s because the rapid vaporizaiton of water cools the remaining water and can go below the freezing point. But, realistically, bodies don’t really freeze to an appreciable degree. Meanwhile, for everything else not containing water, there’s nothing to cool it down. In fact, of the very few particles that are flying around, they’re actually quite hot. Atoms flying for millions of years are still over 20,000 degrees.

  So no. Thermal management makes orbital data centers the actual worst option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 749 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Far Cry had the same loop in 3 and 4. Yes, it’s part of the classic ubi formula. Anyway, seems like Unity isn’t in your list. I recall that having about the same verticality as Syndicate, though no grappling hook and maybe less tall buildings. Mostly 3 floor apartment blocks plus some cathedrals. I played 1 year after release and really didn’t have any bugs, in spite of initial reviews

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Diversity, Equality, Inclusion. The acts support diversity by barring exclusion on grounds of demographics and demanding equality by barring the use of demographic information as part of the hiring process. DEI does not define any minimum diversity metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to think DEI is when employers have to meet a diversity quota, when in reality, it upholds laws stating employers can’t make any hiring decisions based on race or any other such demographic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey jackass, this is why trucks with large tires are supposed to have mud flaps.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wheel coverings are required with a maximum exposure limit. The body usually does the job. Look to the 2022 Jag F-type and F-pace for little spats in the upper rear of the rear wheel arch for hidden compliancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re rare. When you see many identical houses in a neighborhood, it means one contractor developed the whole group. Usually through deforestation to expand the suburbs. They are still fabricated on site, not delivered/assembled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An american on Reddit wrote: "I’m not sure it’s really a good idea to let legislation through on a 51-49 vote: making a change should really take more consensus than that"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did it lower from 2/3+1 to 2/3 flat or is this math a perfect 5/7?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Typing how useless this comment is for the other 94% of the planet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dubya Bush brought him to the presidential dinner unironically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the opposite of another comment here. I guess I’ll beleive neither and refuse both tests to play it safe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we see Oil as always being here for humans? Isn't drilling like taking water out of a swimming pool? Sooner or later your going to run out of water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it is sourced very far away and gets refined into a different product for consumer use that is always available (except during a local crisis) so therefore it’s not something to worry about and is naturally occurring.

  Short-sighted concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disregarding current event, why was it always said if you eat Taco Bell your going to have the burning shits or something? I've eaten it for years and nothing even happened.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because making jokes about “foreign” cuisine is easy and doesn’t need context when the whole herd has a general xenophobic understanding. See: Westernised Chinese food and headaches from MSG (a total myth)

  Quoted "foreign because no, , Taco Bell is not actually Mexican, but ask your nearest “taco bell shits” joker if there’s a difference and they’ll say it’s the same end result. Shit, ask the joker if they even eat Taco Bell and half will say no or give some “only when I’m drunk” explanation.

  My mexican+beer shits are the same as my wings+beer shits, brat+beer shits, and steak+whiskey shits. AKA my weekend shits, where I tend to have less vegetables and more alcohol.

  Add in variability with the gen pop for probably adding more hot sauce and having more dairy than their usual diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a real trip on acid like? Is there any comparisons in movies? I took 3 tabs once and it just turned the world literally black white and gray. Did I miss something like the euphoria or whatever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m familiar with looking at lights. Usually, what you’re describing is more of a blind spot that develops where the light lingered. I’m not looking at the light directly, either. It’s usually noticed when looking at a street normally with a streetlight above.

  Instead, this is like a bright streak that flashes across my sight. Not a lingering streak, not a burn, not a blindspot. Just like a repeat of the streak. Due to the flick nature of humans changing eye targets, the streak isn’t even perceived at first when I move my eyes. They snap to the next target. But the repeat streak has some motion to it, though very fast. I considered mechanical means of triggering receptors, but it matches the placement and direction of the source. If I turn my head and do the same exact eye movement, the repeat streak moves as well.

  I spend a lot of time in the dark. I’ve tried, but I can’t find a pattern. I initially thought it was a rhodopsin artifact (the chemical that dopes your receptors for dark adaptation over ~20 minutes without blue/UV), but I’ve had it happen immediately when going into darkness. Maybe my home isn’t as bright as I think it is? But still, it’s not a permanent feature and only works for a few minutes once I notice it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a real trip on acid like? Is there any comparisons in movies? I took 3 tabs once and it just turned the world literally black white and gray. Did I miss something like the euphoria or whatever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess I don’t need to do that because my vision already streaks! Seriously though, I haven’t met anyone else that experiences what I do. At night, sometimes when looking around lights in the dark like a streetlight, moving my eyes will trigger a delayed streak 1 second later, like a lightning bug shooting across my vision in the same path the streetlight just took. It’s inconsistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with America and the #9? For example stuff cost something like 9.99 or 3 payments of 39.99 or 9 out of 10 doctors or dentists or whomever agree?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Their gas prices probably are an extra 0.009 or 0.0099 higher than the “advertised” price. It’s not an exponent, just an abuse of tiny numbers to shove 9/10 of a penny into the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because when both adults work, it’s mean to leave a living creature home, alone, and enclosed for 9 hours. Pets are domesticated for companionship. It goes both ways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, the recent trend in my culture has been to get lots of flash (like the Clipart of an artist). There’s no meaning besides appreciating an artist’s style or making a reference to something with a logo/symbol/figurehead